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hunt camp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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... he was in the real-estate business, but it was him and Dave-Hornerd, and fella name of Cedric-McDougal at Apsley, he was a car dealer, ah um who else- and his son Marvin but he controlled- this Cedric-McDougal, he controlled this here hunt camp and it was on the east road of Apsley. You ever up the east road of Apsley?
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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'Cause she had got her first deer license too. ... Like a lot of- like what you're not used to. There's a lot of local girls that hunt. ... (inc) hunt camps. ... And part of the hunt camps- ... A lot of them hunt. ... And it's okay. It's- ... Part of life.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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Interviewer: You were talking about the camp, was that a maple sugar camp at all? Speaker: Ah no, it was a- just a camp that ah when ah couple of years ah after we were married we built the camp up here so that we could come up and four-wheel and skidoo up here and ah yeah so no, it's just a little hu-- like a hunt camp or-whatever.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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Sometimes it'd be after hours, he said "I'll leave it between the doors." And you'd go down, pick it up and, whatever you needed and. One time he even give me- it we-- were deer-hunting season, and we started up a hunt camp there about twenty-something years ago. My wife was getting, so I couldn't leave anymore so we- they opened up a season here in- in Brock Township.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
There weren't many deer up there. It used to be really good, but I had a laugh one day, they called it the tin house 'cause the tin- the tin camp or-something, there were more near Ottawa. And they built this tin hunt camp up on ah legs up off the ground. And there was steps, five or six steps up into it. Novemember was the hunt. So we went up in October and- my friend and I and
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
The Vietnam draft dodgers come up here to Canada? ... Well they had a group ah there must have been oh maybe twenty that came up into that area and kind-of lived in the bush. And one day I was going down this bush trail, there was another hunt camp on in from us about a mile and a younger guy he was walking this way and I met him and we were standing there talking. He said "Did you see where those two live?" They'd built their hunt camp there. Said "Did you see where they lived the first winter?" And I said "No." He said "Come with me."
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
So we did have a deer hanging up, I forgot about. So we had a roadkill and a rabbit and I-don't-know partridge, and a mouse hanging up. That was our kill for the first- first day. So the other guys had drop in from the other hunt camps you-know for a beer in the evening.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
Interviewer: I bet you have some pictures of that one. Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah I don't know. I don't know where that book is now. They gave me I think- they gathered up a bunch of the pictures and- 'cause I was- Gus and I it was sort-of our hunt camp but our place was the headquarters. And so at the end of the season they'd usually give us something like you-know. And they- and they made up a- a- a book of pictures- of all the pictures we'd- they'd taken and-everything.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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... my dad was the first one to build out of nine of us and he was very excited 'cause he cut the lumber 'cause we have property across the lake, hunt camp and a maple syrup camp, type- we have that there and my dad in the bush he cut lumber and cut the lumber for the house and he was very excited when I first built and I was excited too.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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... on a Saturday afternoon, and he'd go out driving the old t-- logging roads, and- and go partridge hunting. So ah I'd go with him. But then when my brothers got older they went, and I never did go like to hunt-camp or-anything. 'Cause my dad went hunting every year, he was gone to the hunt-camp for ah a week maybe two- for the two weeks, yeah. 'Cause he loved the outdoors. That was one of the reasons he wanted to move back to Barry's-Bay.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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... we each contribute so much money a year for upkeep and maintenance and building and the whole bit. Yeah, and it's there ah, anybody can go out and use it whenever they want. If I want to get out of Dodge, I go out to the ah hunt camp and I can be there all by myself alone and- and build a little fire and a wood stove, and feel comfy and cozy.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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I am a hunter and, ah, there's ten of us that have a hunt-camp together. Um, one is my cousin, um, that, ah- his father was also a partner at the door plant with, ah- with my dad. And then, um, there's three or four other guys that are my age, ah, late-forties, mid-forties.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
... you would hear about it all the time, well before the hunt actually started, months and months before people would be talking about it, and months and months after people would still be talking about, ah, their hunting experiences. So I was offered an opportunity to join this hunt-camp with ten members back in ninety- ninety-two or ninety-three and I bought in a share and we built a camp and, um, ever since then, ah, I've been (inc) so I was about early twenties when I started. Very late, um, for this area ...
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
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And I know, like- my buddy across the street, his dad has two fish mounted on the wall, um, two big fish that he caught and mounted on the wall, and a lot of people around here, in their hunt camps, have like, deer horns, ah, stuff-like-that, on their walls.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
Speaker: Um, I went just like- rabbit hunting, and-stuff-like-that, but I-don't-know, I don't- I don't find it that fun. ... Yeah, it's not something I'm really into. Interviewer: Yeah. Well, I think part of it's the social for them, too, right? Speaker: Yeah, yeah, w-- like- I went, ah, um, one of my buddies' hunt camps, and that was fun, just like, sitting around hearing some of the stories his dad and their buddies had to- had to tell us, but I fe-- I actually fell asleep while we were in the bush, 'cause you get up really early, and- and you just kind of sit there, so I fell asleep.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage